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72 out of 96 people found the following review useful:
Yet Another Nicholas Cage Movie, 2 October 2012

Author: can-da-spam from United States

Y A N C M

Nicolas Cage made some good movies a while ago. Not this one.

End of story.

Long story: It's not all that interesting. The plot is like junk food -- dulls the mind, weakens the heart -- unsatisfying. The action is dreary and slow. Even the attempts at slowing down the pace are annoying. The absurd characterization of an Australian is ridiculous. The sound track is stolen from "The Saint" and Val Kilmer. The pretense of a hectic "Fat Tuesday" is idiotic. The visual effects stolen from "Heat" are disconnected from the action. Each character is a grotesque cliché. Each plot step is predictable.

Yet Another Nicolas Cage Movie.

Here's hoping he delivers a couple more good ones eventually.

45 out of 61 people found the following review useful:
Cage and West re-team for Stolen, 16 September 2012

Author: rgblakey from United States

Nicolas Cage is one of those A-list classified actors that somehow manage to churn movies out left and right no matter the quality or subject matter. His over the top persona is most likely the biggest reason delivering some memorable characters whether you like him or not. The trailer for his latest Stolen comes off more like a rehash of Taken, but with Cage's added unique character delivery and Expendables 2 director Simon West in the mix could it give something a bit more or will it be another in a long line of low end releases to Cage's career?

Stolen follows a former thief frantically searching for his missing daughter, who has been kidnapped and locked in the trunk of a taxi, while trying to avoid FBI agents convinced he is lying and looking to find the money he stole 8 years prior. While the story seems like Taken it really isn't. Yeah there are similarities, but really no more than there is in tons of other action thrillers in this genre. The story here is more straight-forward and on a smaller scale, but still works fairly well. Cage delivers a bit more of a relaxed performance, but still manages to execute some of his over the top performance in there from time to time. Luckily it's usually when it is needed so doesn't distract too much from the overall film. The supporting cast is pretty good featuring Malin Ackerman, Mark Valley, Danny Huston, and Josh Lucas who seemed to take over with the over the top delivery here. While a bit silly at times, Lucas character still works decently. What really make this film work at all are the decent action and the clever robbery scenarios. It has become pretty rare to deliver something all that interesting in film bank jobs, but here they did some pretty creative stuff.

This is a pretty average action thriller, but works well enough to have some fun. Most likely this only got theatrical release thanks to West's success on Expendables 2 and Cage's name, because on some levels it really feels more like a straight to video release. Either way, fans of Cage will have a good time and most likely everyone else will have mixed opinions.

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26 out of 33 people found the following review useful:
Liked the first one better., 3 October 2012

Author: James Jacobs from United States

*** This review may contain spoilers ***

Spoilers in here.

Nicolas Cage...check. Job goes bad, one of Cage's family members gets kidnapped...check. He has to steal something almost impossible to get them back...check. With the Feds watching following him the whole time...check. He goes one of his ex partners, who has sworn off crime for help...check. She's hot...check. She does it anyways...check. Gets the job done, but leads to a fight at the end...check. Bad guy dies, family member safe...check. Cop lets Cage walk...check.

Why is this movie not called "Gone in 60 Seconds 2"?

Good movie, but it's already been done...with the same lead actor.

Was this written by the same guy?

43 out of 70 people found the following review useful:
not THAT bad, still quite watchable actually, 2 October 2012
Author: rightwingisevil from United States

this movie is action-packed and of course, there are mucho take-for-granted flaws throughout the whole movie that usually a quick tempo thriller could never avoid. but there's one thing we should admit, nicholas cage did every of his movie 110% with his 110% over-the-top acting or shall we say, commitment. his endeavor in this movie is no exception: he never stopped running from the very beginning to the end; and it's not easy at his age to play such action role, even all the scenes in his movies could be edited. the investors of his movies should consider their money never wasted on this actually quite superb actor. again, i'd like to reiterate, even this is not a great movie, it's still quite watchable, and you can't treat it as a B movie.

20 out of 25 people found the following review useful:
Casey's Movie Mania: STOLEN (2012), 11 October 2012

Author: caseymoviemania from Malaysia

Zero fanfare, barely-there 141 theaters count in the U.S. (a surprise, considering it's a movie starring Nicolas Cage and directed by Simon West of CON AIR and THE EXPENDABLES 2 fame), and scathing reviews -- everything about STOLEN spells rotten. Many have even lambasted this as among the worst Nicolas Cage movie he's ever acted. Personally, I don't blame them for being so harsh since Nicolas Cage's movies nowadays are mostly rubbish. But surprisingly, STOLEN isn't as bad as I thought. It isn't good either, but rather a fairly worthwhile action thriller.

The movie follows Will Montgomery (Nicolas Cage), a master thief who has been sent to prison for 8 years after being double-crossed by one of his partners (M.C. Gainey) in a $10 million robbery gone awry. Upon his release, he plans to leave his criminal past behind and attempts to rekindle his shaky relationship with his estranged daughter, Alison (Sami Gayle). However, FBI agents Tim Harlend (Danny Huston) and Fletcher (Mark Valley) are both convinced that Montgomery must have stashed the $10 million somewhere before he was arrested. But Montgomery insists he's already burned all the money before he surrendered himself, so his prison sentence will be significantly reduced. Soon, it doesn't take long before Montgomery's past comes back to haunt him when his former partner, Vincent (Josh Lucas), who is long thought to be dead, works as a taxi driver and kidnaps Alison. Vincent has been waiting for 8 years to exact revenge against Montgomery, who shots his leg during that fateful robbery, and now he wants the missing $10 million as ransom. Montgomery is given 12 hours to retrieve the money at all cost, or Vincent will kill Alison. As time running out, Montgomery has no choice but to go back his old self again and re-teams with his another partner, the beautiful Riley Jeffers (Malin Akerman) to pull off a bank heist.

STOLEN plays strictly by-the-numbers, and it's terribly clichéd all over the place. David Guggenheim's screenplay is full of implausibilities, and the characters are all caricatures at best. But the movie's ludicrous tone has somehow plays out fairly good to its advantage. Thanks to Simon West's energetic direction, the movie zips along fast enough. Frankly, watching STOLEN is akin to watching a mindless '90s action movie -- enjoyable as long as you put your logic aside. The action are quite entertaining , especially given its $35 million low-budget cost (the opening heist scene and the car chase scene inside the parking lot comes to mind), even though they tend to get a bit distracted by its fast editing. Mark Isham's score is catchy and entertaining enough, but its snappy tone that favors over its caper genre does sounds awkward during its more dramatic moments.

Acting-wise, Nicolas Cage plays the same old character we have seen too many times before -- twitchy, that is. But at least, it's not as worst as critics might lead you to believe here. Josh Lucas certainly has a field day playing an over-the-top, crazy psychopath while both Danny Huston and Mark Valley make quite a worthwhile comic-relief pair as two buffoonery FBI agents. Malin Akerman puts up a thankless role here, which is nothing more than showcasing her beauty and little else.

While STOLEN won't top anyone's list as one of the must-see action movies of the year, at least it delivers adequate supply of guilty-pleasure entertainment.

15 out of 18 people found the following review useful:
if you like Cage then watch this.. This is all cage .., 6 October 2012

Author: Anna G from India

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I give it a 7 because Its all so predictable and these plots have been made earlier. Cage keeps us on the edge and carries every scene on his shoulders.

Malin Akerman is almost non-existent There is no Love angle only a father going about to rescue his daughter Like watching Kurt Russel in Breakdown searching for his wife.

The FBI team is good have made their presence worth it

Other characters of the movie might well be out of any B movie

A nice thrill ride if you ignore the predictable turn of events ..

I give it a seven only because Cage make this ordinary bag of movie watchable

18 out of 27 people found the following review useful:
Nothing New! 10 Things that come to my mind, 4 October 2012

Author: jasskulaar from Australia

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(1) Nothing new in story. Just a mix-up of movies like taken, gone in 60 seconds.

(2) Same old dialogues we have heard before.

(3) Poorly executed bank robberies.

(4) Badly done action scenes.

(5) Good actors with week roles. Danny Huston(Conspirator -Good!), Mark Valley(Human target -Amazing!), Josh Lucas (The Firm - Decent!)

(6) Tired of father-daughter action movies. Hanna. Taken. Taken 2. The Expatriate.

(7) Horrible ending scene. Arghh

(8) Did not shine in any genre. Thriller? Action? Suspense?

(9) Does NC do which ever movies comes his way and just hopes its will be a blockbuster? Why cant an actor at his position "choose" to only do films with substance.

(10) Leaving the theater with bad taste, this movie left me unsatisfied.

11 out of 14 people found the following review useful:
Nothing special, but not bad... And less than 1,5 hours, 16 October 2012

Author: Bene Cumb from Estonia

The plot is rather simple and not original, but chases during and within Mardi Gras festivities in New Orleans are interesting to watch (here, adding the carnival does make sense, in most other movies it is just meant to confuse viewers and chasers). However, the "final end" could have been different, more sophisticated.

Nicholas Cage is good as usual, but the real star (and best villain) of the movie is John Lucas - vicious inside and outside. Female characters tend to be sketchy, although actresses do their best.

An OK movie for killing time, but it is neither Heat nor Snatch or similar. A typical Cage-related action.

11 out of 15 people found the following review useful:
average movie, 5 October 2012

Author: bilal amjad from Pakistan

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I watched this movie just because of nicholas cage but he really disappointed me.An actor like him should not work for this movie.

stolen is just an ordinary story like other movies in which time domain and money relationship is given to the hero and he has to complete this task otherwise his loved one will be harmed..

there are some out fashioned "X" factors like 'when his daughters finger was about to reach the mobile the cab suddenly stops and the mobile slips off from the seat..

in actual FBI is not as inefficient as shown in the movie.

And in the end hero has no gun for protection although he is a mastermind and a welknown thief..

6 out of 7 people found the following review useful:
Disappointing, 22 December 2012

Author: (bob-rutzel-1) from United States

Master thief, Will Montgomery (Nicolas Cage), leaves jail after serving 8-years for a heist gone bad. His cohorts (he never gave them up) in crime believe Will has the 10-million somewhere and they want it. They kidnap his daughter Allison (Sami Gayle) as leverage to get that money. Will claims he burned the money before he was caught. What to do? What to do? What to do?

This starts out good up to the time when daughter Allison is kidnapped. Then it becomes too workman-like rushing around to save Allison. Will tries to get the cops to help but they don't believe him either about the 10-million and watch him like a hawk. Vince (Josh Lucas) the former partner in crime who kidnaps Allison plays the role somewhat over the top. Lucas doesn't make a good bad guy and for the most part was too animated, hence: annoying.

So we are left with a chase movie the rest of the way with the cops always in the wrong place and trying catch up. The vehicle stunts were very good and hard to believe they did these stunts during a Mardi Gras parade in New Orleans. Ouch !

Yes, there are similarities to the movie TAKEN, but in that movie Liam Neeson had fighting skills we agreed with. In here no such karate, Judo or other moves were demonstrated. Bummer.

I like Nicolas Cage, but this movie was kind of disappointing and I just didn't care if Will succeeded with his plan. I must admit that when Will and Vince meet up for their fight at the end it was very exciting and kept me on the edge of my seat. Great choreography. However, that didn't make up for everything that went before. So I have no choice to chalk this up to being disappointing. (5/10)

However, I will still run to a Nicolas Cage movie in the future. It's what I do. HA !

Violence: Yes. Sex: No. Nudity: No. Language: No.

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